pprindeville / clixon-openwrt

Openwrt package feed for cross-compiling clixon for openwrt

Clixon openwrt feed

Description

This repo contains an OpenWrt package feed containing clixon related libraries and applications.

Note: clixon restconf is configured as native http/2-only

Prereqs

You need a target system. One way is to use virtualbox

Then you need to setup an openwrt cross-compile environment:

• Checkout openwrt: git clone git://github.com/openwrt/openwrt.git
• Setup an openwrt buildroot for cross-compiling

Building

To use the clixon packages, add the following line to feeds.conf in the OpenWrt buildroot. If feeds.conf does not exist, create it:

   src-git packages https://git.openwrt.org/feed/packages.git
   src-git clixon https://github.com/clicon/clixon-openwrt.git

The clixon-openwrt feed should be included and enabled by default in the OpenWrt buildroot. To install all its package definitions, run:

  ./scripts/feeds update packages
  ./scripts/feeds install -a -p packages
  ./scripts/feeds update clixon
  ./scripts/feeds install -a -p clixon

Run make menuconfig select target, and check the clixon packages (cligen, clixon, clixon-hello, clixon-wifi) in the section 'Utilities', and save.

To build a complete image:

  make -j world

To build just the clixon and cligen packages on a given openwrt root build:

  make -j1 V=s package/cligen/compile
  make -j1 V=s package/clixon/compile

Install

Thereafter the packages are copied to the target machine and installed

  scp bin/packages/x86_64/clixon/cligen_6.3.0-1_x86_64.ipk root@192.168.56.2:/tmp/
  scp bin/packages/x86_64/clixon/clixon_6.3.0-1_x86_64.ipk root@192.168.56.2:/tmp/

Login to the target and install the packages:

  ssh root@192.168.56.2
  opkg update
  opkg install /tmp/cligen_6.3.0-1_x86_64.ipk
  opkg install /tmp/clixon_6.3.0-1_x86_64.ipk

At this point, a base clixon libs and data files are installed and you can proceed to install a clixon example or application, such as hello world:

  make -j1 V=s package/clixon-hello/compile
  scp bin/packages/x86_64/clixon/clixon-hello*_x86_64.ipk root@192.168.56.2:/tmp/
  ssh root@192.168.56.2 "opkg install /tmp/clixon-helloxxx_x86_64.ipk"

Thereafter the clixon example can be run, eg:

  clixon_backend -f /etc/hello.xml